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Originally Posted by stonetools
The PC began as a screen, a keyboard, and a CPU.I don't see anything replacing the keyboard as the chief input device for the PC any time soon.
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Ah, but stakes are high, QED (by this Microsoft move). The very concept of "personal computer" (or is it a "personal computing platform") is threatened by the arrival of increasingly capable mobile toys. Truly mobile, capable (and will be even more so in the foreseeable future) of packing some serious processing power... and affordable, too.
Keyboard? Why not add both mouse and big screen for the full blown workstation? A mobile device, as a concept, now "threatens" to pull the heart of PC, it's CPU, out of that screen-keyboard-cpu(and few other things) trinity... out.